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When do you offer salvage prostate bed RT to patients who have a biochemical recurrence >5 years after RP?

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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic

While retrospective data consistently suggest that biochemical outcomes (and possibly also distant metastases and prostate cancer specific mortality) are better when salvage radiation is delivered at lower PSA values, there is no absolute cut-point to trigger treatment. Many factors must be taken in...

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